This next Chapter.

When I started on this journey to central Texas, I had gone on a long road trip to look at a 1968 Airstream Flying Cloud in San Angelo, Texas (I put Jane, her Mom, and the kids in the car from Houston for 8 hrs each way – in the span of 24 hrs).

Airstreams are another passion of mine.

I’ve owned 3 of them, and each time I begin the restoration process, someone comes along and offers me an outrageous sum of money for it, and snatches it right out from under me! Bessie was our toughest to part with - 30 feet long - she sat in front of our house in Kensington, California for many months as I planned what I was going to do. My youngest was very attached, and to this day, he calls every Airstream we pass Bessie.

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Bessie, a 1970’s Airstream Sovereign (before she was sold to a make-up artist in San Francisco).

Here’s what I always imagined she would look like when I finished:

But, I digress…

I fell in love with the wild west Texas landscape on that road trip. It was like something reached inside of me, to the depths of my soul, and planted a seed in there. I find so much peace in that kind of emptiness. I left California for this and I don’t regret it for one second. 16 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and I’ve truly not looked back.

Hill Country has so much expansive beauty, everywhere you look. It’s why I am so over the moon as I create this ranch/space where our new life has begun to unfold and morph into what it wants to be. Cabin meets farm to table meets DONKEYS.

This will be my next step. As my boy so aptly put it…FOR REAL!

A very rare, French Poitou Donkey

Andalusian Donkeys

First comes love, then comes marriage/family, then comes donkeys. THIS, my friends, is my next big dream.

Song of the Day: Boredom Killed Another by Wolves

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